The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.